Again what he said in the situation room has me asking.. HOW DO YOU

FIGURE PEOPLE WHO MAKE OVER $100,000 A YEAR ARE "better off"????

I make less than that, so what he was saying should sound

good to me. The problem is, I plan on making more than that one

day. Like my other blogs, Senator Obama this time actually said he

classes middle class as making less than $100,000 a year. If you

make more than that, yuo are better off.

THAT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. If they are going to do this, they

need to put locality on tax brackets. As I expressed before, making

$100,000 a year in Georgia is a lot better than making $100,000 a

year here in Maryland.

Also, isn't he, along with Clinton, pretty much saying,

"don't work to better yourself. Don't try to get a degree to build

qualifications, meet damand of high paying jobs so you can build a

properous life. Because if you do. If you better yourself to

contribute to your community and better your future, we are just

going to take it from you."

So why should I better myself? Why get that raise, finish

college, work long ours to make a profit, when the democrats want

to tax you for it.

Is it not fair to reap the rewards of hard work?

My friend has a master's degree in Marketing. His wife has a

law degree. They make a good amount of doe. They also have 3 kids.

They didn't finish their degrees until just now, and they are 32

years old. They also have $120,000 in student loans to repay. They

also liver here in maryland, which is a very high cost of living.

BUT ON PAPER they make just over $200,00 (together) a year. Why

should they be punished? They don't actually make that money. They

have 3 daycare's to pay for. Which if you live here you realize you

are paying $600 - $1,000 A MONTH for EACH child. They also have

high interest rate students loans to pay back.

We live in an area where our town house cost more than 2

homes in georgia. Yet on paper they are "well off". They feel they

are not allowed to reap the bennifits of buckling down, busting

their ass, and going to school until 32 years old.

I say they should be able to enjoy what they worked hard for,

and should not be taxed because of it. They weren't handed money,

they did what a lot of us won't. They deserve to enjoy every penny.

I don't look at them as stuck up, I respect them for busting their

but to achieve what they set out to achieve.

I say if a democrat wins office, we all stop working and go

on welfare. If you work hard, you get punished for it, yet if you

do nothing they want to "help" you. So the minute they are in

office, I will be living off of all your tax dollars!

But my main point here, was again, you can't classify the

"middle class" strictly on gross income. They need to change it.

Like I said previously, is making $100,000 in NYC well off when the

average apartment in manhatten is $1.5 million?

Locality should be figured into tax brackets. That would be

fair, I think...

thoughts?